weary of teosinte?

if so you might want to bail after the preliminaries...

temperature today was seasonably warm...and there is no frost forecast through the twenty-sixth of the month...which is twenty-four days past the average frost date...averages lie, that's true...however it does seem to be rather a long season...

warm or not the tomato in the east bed is still confused...these things happen...even in the best of gardens...

the leaves on the teosinte that was blown over last saturday night have begun to look like they are dying back...

which might disturb me if it weren't october and if the upright teosinte didn't have its leaves dying back as well ( if you live near a field of dense yellow #2 field corn have a look at it...it is dying back as well )...it season is ending and the seed production is getting all the energy...

the ears on the horizontal stalks are still as green and as functional as...

as the ones on the upright stalks...so..with some fortunate weather they may actually mature...still hopeful...

and meanwhile the sunshine and warm temperatures are helping the garlic in the bed of my truck establish itself before winter...new shoot coming up mean more food for the roots...a bit more compost and, perhaps, some straw as the weather inevitably cools, and we may just have organic garlic in the truck garden...